The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-16

found suffering from pleuro-pneumoEIa.
The herd has been afflicted for some
time.
Two earthquake shocks were felt
on the 10th at Burlington, Vermont,
the first at about half-past 2 o'clock,
the second, ten minutes later. The
second shock was very heavy, resemb-
ling the conclusion from a large gun,
followed by a jar Of fifteen seconds
duration. Doors and windows ratified
and those living in the third story of
blocks say the buildings seemed to
sway to and fro. People ran into the
streets in a panic, many supposlng
that a terrific explosion had occurred
near by"
Terrible prairie fires, dong great
damage to property and causing loss
of human life, are reported in Da-
kota. Near Madison twenty-five
farmers lost houses, barns. stock and
grain, and Francis Keller was burned
TO death on the evening Of the Sth.
| Several dwellings near Huron were
destroyed The same night. In Il of
them Edward Maloney and Annie
Marine were burned TO death, and
Kate Maloney so badly burned that
her res overy ia doubtful. The build
ipgs of the j. Walker Brewing Com
pany, at Cincinnati, were damaged by
fire on the oh TO the extent of
$50,O00.
There is a freshet in the Mohawk
river. at Polatine Bridge on the 10Th
a Central Railroad culyert was washed
out and the damage was discovered
just in time to save a Chicago express
tram.
The Maumee Rolling Mills, on the
east side Of Maumee, Ohio, were on the
10th destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at $500. 900 by the President of the
company, while the insurance is said to
be only $50, coo. About 200 men were
employed in The mills, but arrange
ments were being made to increase the
number TO 600. u fire of incendiary
origin on the 10th destroyed a large
and Stony Brook, Long Island.
about 200 men, residents Of the vi
entity, fought the fire, which at one
time threatened the destruction of the
country seat at Crane Neck, of Fran
CTS b. Spinola, of New York, tie Gen
eral himself fighting the fire until it
was subdued."
During a ''family quarrel' in
Meadville, Penna., on the night of the
9th, Mrs. John BuckhOlz threw a
lighted lamp at her husbands head.
The lamp exploded and enveloped both
in flames. Buckholz dragged his wife
from the burning house, but she was
so badly injured that she died GA the
morning of the 10th.
News reached st. Johns, New.
foundland, on the afternoon of the 9th,
of the safety of the sealing steamer
Eagle, which had been reported lost,
with $50 lives. She was seen by the
steamer Aurora on the 9th instant.
A violent wind storm passed over
Hastings, Nebraska, on the 9th, doing
much damage to property. The opera
house and the First National Bank
were unroofed.
"A terrible accident happened at st.
Clair, Penna., on the afternoon of the
11th. Miss Berlesta Shaul, of Sharon
Springs, New York, a Vassar College
student, was visiting Miss Minnie
Keether, a fellow student. The two
young ladies, in company with a young
man named Harry Short and Edwin
Thompson, one of the operators of the
| Chamberlain colllery, entered the MN
for the purpose of giving Miss Shaul
an opportunity to inspect the opera
ton of mining coal. The mine had
not been working for a week, and the
only other persons in it were Albert
Thompson, another of the firm, and
several persons making an eXamina-
ton. The latter party was startled by
the sound of an explosion, and, hurry
ling towards the foot of the slope, they
found Messrs. Short and Thompson
and the two ladies lying on the ground.
All were frightfully burned and
bruised. Miss Keether died the same
evening. Young Short and Miss
Shaul may recover, but it Is doubtful.
Thompson was not fatally Injured. 1t
is supposed the catastrophe was caused
by a naked lamp. Three nen were
killed on the 18th at shaft No. 10 of
the new aqueduct bridge, New York,
by the falling of a cage.
Two terrific explosions occurred
on the afternoon of the 10th in the
| nitro glycerine works at P~lattsburg,
New York, but no person was killed.
1t is thought that the heat of the
sun raised the temperature of the sub
stance. which was mixed outside OF
the factory. The first explosion scat
tered the fire IN the stove and caused
a second explosion of six hundred
pounds of nitro-glycerine. Nothing
was left of the large brick building
used as a factory but an immense
hole in the ground. Windows were
broken in buildings in Plattsburg, and
the shock was felt in Burlington,
Vermont.
The high water n the Hudson
river on the morning of the 18th a
ried away two sections of the iron toll
bridge from Saltwater to Schaghticoke
Tie river at Troy IS over three docks,
but no damage has been done. The
White river, in Vermont, is very high
from the melting of the SHOWS. Por-
lions of the temporary trestle bridge
near Hartford have been carried away.
The food in the Mohawk river IS In
creasing, and the New York Central
Railroad tracks are submerged at va
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